Nothing But the Truth Review
October 3rd, 2007 by huphtur under reviews, skateboarding
Last nite I went to the Nike SB Video premiere to support Wieger. The event itself was nicely organized, easy to pick up RSVP tickets, mellow security and free popcorn.
But then the weirdness started. Each skater had to direct their own movie and they showed their “struggle” to complete this task before their parts. I understand it was all meant as a joke, and it did have some very funny moments, but its was just too weird.
Best part belongs to Omar Salazar, that dude is a beast. Another stand-out was Grant Taylor who has an amazing style and skates just about everything.
And of course Wieger’s part was badass. One of his last tricks was a heelflip backside nosegrind on Hubba Hideout! Which brings me to another gripe I have with the movie… why wasn’t this trick shown in slow-mo? There was no slow-mo in the entire video.
Also, the editing and image quality of the video wasn’t the greatest. Maybe I’m spoiled already by Ty Evans’ HD promos for the Lakai video (which I can’t WAIT to see), but overall the Nike video was just plain weird.
UPDATE: Know Skateboarding has an awesome set of photos of the premiere.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
yur weird!
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
I totally felt weird when it was all done. Plus I realize this is the 2nd Nike thing I posted in a row.
October 4th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Nike does skateboarding? Go figure.
October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Wieger rules! best skater of Europe!
October 27th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Fuck skateboarding aint that the truth
November 6th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
and daniel… nothing about daniel?
November 7th, 2007 at 5:46 am
Shimizu was solid as usual, but didn’t impress me as much.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:04 am
I really don’t get why people don’t dig Rodriguez’s part. Honestly, I never really was that into him until this part. His Forecast part was OK, but a lot of his videos end up being boring. This time he really brought me over to the P-Rod camp with this video. Anyone who does a switch tré to noseslide in a line wins me over. Also, they got a good Sonic Youth song here.